The date of the 'admin' edit of the wiki
http://wiki.swftools.org/index.php?title=FAQ&diff=prev&oldid=101
is younger than that of the list message,
Tue, Jul 28, 2009
and the wiki link leads here,
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
rather than here,
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
so one assumes that Matthias did indeed change it.
Then again, if you read this
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html
and also the blurb which heads the c source code,
for example,
<snip>
/* pdf2swf.c
main routine for pdf2swf(1)
Part of the swftools package.
Copyright (c) 2001,2002,2003 Matthias Kramm <[email protected]>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
</snip>
it looks like Matthias has actually made it a conscious choice!
Maybe it should be more categorically stated in order to iron out any
inconsistency?
Regards,
Chris.
On 8 July 2010 07:18, Deepak Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the prompt reply Chris ... I did see the FAQ link earlier. But an
> earlier comment from Matthias Kramm in the forum thread below lead me to ask
> the question.
> 'swftools is, at the moment, still licensed under the GPL 2, not 3'
> in the thread below lead me to think otherwise. I assume from your reply
> that it's been changed to GPL 3 in the time that has passed.
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03929.html
> Thanks again,
> Deeps
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Chris Pugh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On 7 July 2010 12:07, Deepak Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > Great work with the tool set. We are interest in using PDF2SWF in our
>> > app
>> > which is a commercial one. I checked the licensing information and it
>> > says
>> > GPL. Would that be under GPL v3 or GPL v2?
>> > Thanks,
>> > Deeps
>>
>> Try this wiki link,
>>
>> http://wiki.swftools.org/index.php/FAQ
>>
>> It should answer your question.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Chris.
>
>
